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The '''Institute of Nuclear Power Operations''' (INPO) is an industry-funded organization created in the United States after the [[Three Mile Island]] accident to promote operational excellence and share safety information among nuclear utilities. INPO operates as a private regulatory body with the unusual power to effectively shut down plants that fail to meet its standards — a power that the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission|Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] does not always possess due to legal and political constraints. INPO's creation represents an important but under-theorized phenomenon: the delegation of regulatory authority to private organizations when public institutions are perceived as too slow, too captured, or too politically constrained to enforce standards. Whether this represents [[Regulatory Capture|regulatory capture]] by another name, or a genuine innovation in [[Safety Science|safety governance]], remains debated.

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